BJKS Podcast

Tom Hostler is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. In this conversation, we focus on his recent article on the increased workload caused by open science.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:00: Start discussing Tom's paper 'The Invisible Workload of Open Research'0:29:22: Does open science actually increase workload?0:44:26: How open science changes the research process0:54:02: Are open science requirements especially time consuming for labs without lots of funding?1:01:44: What are the most effective open science practices?1:06:31: Book or paper Tom thinks more people should read1:09:39: Something Tom wishes he'd learnt sooner1:13:32: Tom's advice for PhD students and postdocsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtTom's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/hostler-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/hostler-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/hostler-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences Aczel, Szaszi, Sarafoglou et al. A consensus-based transparency checklist. Nat Hum Behav 4, 4–6 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0772-6 Bozeman, Youtie & Jung (2021). Death by a thousand 10-minute tasks: Workarounds and noncompliance in university research administration. Administration & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399720947994Costantini, Cordero, Campbell, … Pearson, R. M. (2021). Mental Health Intergenerational Transmission (MHINT) Process Manual. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/s6n4hDienes (2008). Understanding psychology as a science: An introduction to scientific and statistical inference. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.Forscher, Wagenmakers, Coles, Silan, Dutra, Basnight-Brown & IJzerman (2023). The benefits, barriers, and risks of big-team science. Perspectives on Psychological Science.Hostler (2023). The Invisible Workload of Open Research. Journal of Trial & Error. https://doi.org/10.36850/mr5Nickerson (2000). Null hypothesis significance testing: a review of an old and continuing controversy. Psychological methods.Schneider (2015). The censor's hand: The misregulation of human-subject research. MIT Press.LinksUK REF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Excellence_FrameworkMark Rubin's Critical Metascience Blog: https://markrubin.substack.com/Reporting checklist: https://www.equator-network.org/reporting-guidelines/

Nico Schuck is Professor and head of the research group 'Mechanisms of learning and change' at the University of Hamburg, where his research focuses on the neuroscience of learning, memory, and cognitive maps. In this conversation, we discuss his work on cognitive maps and replay in Orbitofrontal Cortex and Hippocampus, decoding even brief events with fMRI, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: Nico's work elicits 'limited enthusiasm'04:36: Multivariate decoding with fMRI13:23: Start discussing Nico's paper 'Human OFC represents a cognitive map of state space'19:39: Weird tasks in computational neuroscience27:30: Start discussing Nico's paper ' Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus'36:45: How can the slow fMRI signal pick up on very fast neural dynamics?43:02: What is Orbitofrontal Cortex and what does it do?49:24: Some books and papers more people should read55:17: Something Nico wishes he'd learnt sooner56:40: Advice for young scientistsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtNico's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/schuck-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/schuck-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/schuck-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesAly & Turk-Browne (2016). Attention stabilizes representations in the human hippocampus. Cerebral Cortex.Bishop (2006). Pattern recognition and machine learning. New York: Springer.Kaplan, Schuck & Doeller (2017). The role of mental maps in decision-making. Trends in Neurosciences.Knudsen & Wallis (2022). Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.Moneta, Garvert, Heekeren & Schuck (2023). Task state representations in vmPFC mediate relevant and irrelevant value signals and their behavioral influence. Nature Communications.Schuck, Cai, Wilson & Niv (2016). Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space. Neuron.Schuck & Niv (2019). Sequential replay of nonspatial task states in the human hippocampus. Science.Shepard (1987). Toward a universal law of generalization for psychological science. Science.Skaggs & McNaughton (1996). Replay of neuronal firing sequences in rat hippocampus during sleep following spatial experience. Science.Sutton & Barto (2018). Reinforcement learning: An introduction. MIT press.Tang, LeBel, Jain & Huth (2023). Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings. Nature Neuroscience.Todd, Nystrom & Cohen(2013). Confounds in multivariate pattern analysis: theory and rule representation case study. Neuroimage.Wilson, Takahashi, Schoenbaum & Niv (2014). Orbitofrontal cortex as a cognitive map of task space. Neuron.

Lynn Nadel is an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona, where his research focuses on the role of the hippocampus in memory. In this conversation, we talk about the early years of Lynn's career: why he chose to do chemistry, how a course with Donald Hebb made him switch to psychology, how his postdoc was disrupted by the Soviet invasion during the Prague Spring, John O'Keefe's discovery of place cells, how Lynn and O'Keefe wrote The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps00:00: How Lynn went from studying chemistry to doing a PhD on memory08:35: What was it like working Donald Hebb?15:16: The golden era of cognitive neuroscience at McGill in the 50s and 60s23:14: Lynn's postdoc in Prague was interrupted by the Soviet invasion during Prague Spring36:29: The discovery of place cells and the writing of The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map50:59: A paper or book Lynn thinks more people should read54:55: Something Lynn wishes he'd learnt sooner57:38: Advice for early career scientistsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtLynn's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/nadel-webMastodon: https://geni.us/nadel-mastodonBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksEpisode w/ Kate Jeffery: https://geni.us/bjks-jefferyKonorski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_KonorskiJZ Young: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Zachary_YoungGoddard (1983). The kindling model of epilepsy. Trends in Neurosciences.Káli & Dayan (2002). Replay, repair and consolidation. Adv in Neur Info Proc Sys. Klein, Cosmides, Tooby & Chance (2002). Decisions and the evolution of memory: multiple systems, multiple functions. Psych Rev.Konorski (1967). Integrative activity of the brain; an interdisciplinary approach.McClelland, McNaughton & O'Reilly (1995). Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psych Rev.Melzack & Wall (1965). Pain Mechanisms: A New Theory: A gate control system modulates sensory input from the skin before it evokes pain perception and response. Science.Nadel & Buresova (1968). Monocular input and interhemispheric transfer in the reversible split-brain. Nature.Olds & Milner (1954). Positive reinforcement produced by electrical stimulation of septal area and other regions of rat brain. J comp & phys psychol.O'Keefe & Dostrovsky (1971). The hippocampus as a spatial map: preliminary evidence from unit activity in the freely-moving rat. Brain research.O'Keefe & Nadel (1978) The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map. Oxford University Press.Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nat Neuro.Ravindran (2022). Profile of Lynn Nadel. PNAS.

Mona Garvert is Lead Research Scientist at Alena where she uses her background in cognitive neuroscence to advance computational psychiatry. In this episode, we talk about her academic research on the neural basis of cognitive maps, how she got into this topic, fMRI adaptation , and her recent move from academia to working at Alena.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:00: How Mona started working on cognitive maps15:28: Repetition suppression/fMRI adaptation28:49: Start discussing Mona's paper 'A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal-entorhinal cortex'40:07: Are discrete and continuous maps different in the brain?43:37: Start discussing Mona's paper ' Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization'55:50: Mona now works for Alena, doing computational psychiatryPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtMona's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/garvert-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/garvert-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/garvert-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences & linksMona's talk at TCPW: https://www.quentinhuys.com/tcpw/events/mona-garvert/Where Mona now works: https://alena.com/Barron, Garvert & Behrens (2016). Repetition suppression: a means to index neural representations using BOLD? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Clark & Wells (1995). A cognitive model of social phobia. In Heimberg, Liebowitz, Hope, & Schneier (Eds.), Social phobia: Diagnosis, assessment, and treatment. Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature. Garvert, Dolan & Behrens (2017). A map of abstract relational knowledge in the human hippocampal–entorhinal cortex. eLife.Garvert & Gollisch (2013). Local and global contrast adaptation in retinal ganglion cells. Neuron.Garvert, Moutoussis, Kurth-Nelson, Behrens & Dolan (2015). Learning-induced plasticity in medial prefrontal cortex predicts preference malleability. Neuron. Garvert, Saanum, Schulz, Schuck & Doeller (2023). Hippocampal spatio-predictive cognitive maps adaptively guide reward generalization. Nature Neuroscience. Klein-Flügge, Barron, Brodersen, Dolan & Behrens (2013). Segregated encoding of reward–identity and stimulus–reward associations in human orbitofrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. Knudsen & Wallis (2022). Taking stock of value in the orbitofrontal cortex. Nature Reviews Neuroscience.  Schapiro, Rogers, Cordova, Turk-Browne & Botvinick (2013). Neural representations of events arise from temporal community structure. Nature Neuroscience.Stachenfeld, Botvinick & Gershman (2017). The hippocampus as a predictive map. Nature Neuroscience.

Peter Gärdenfors is an Emeritus Professor at Lund University at the Department of Philosophy. His work is at the intersection of philosophy, cognitive, psychology, and linguistics. In this conversation, we discuss his book Conceptual spaces and many of the topics discussed therein (convexity, prototypes, metrics), whether the theory is falsifiable, how it can explain aspects of semantics and of how children learn, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:04: Where is the neuroscience (especially about spatial navigation) in Conceptual Spaces?0:04:54: What are conceptual spaces?0:14:53: How Peter went from decision theory to knowledge representation0:20:25: Dimensions and metrics in conceptual spaces0:35:29: Is the theory of conceptual spaces falsifiable?0:38:41: Conceptual spaces of semantics0:51:54: 3 levels of representation across evolution0:55:41: The future of conceptual spaces1:01:09: Something Peter wishes he'd learned sooner1:04:31: A paper or book Peter thinks more people should readPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtPeter's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/gardenfors-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/gardenfors-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/gardenfors-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesBellmund, Gärdenfors, Moser & Doeller (2018). Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking. Science. Gardenfors (2004). Conceptual spaces: The geometry of thought. MIT press.Gardenfors (2014). The geometry of meaning: Semantics based on conceptual spaces. MIT press. Marr (1982). Vision: A computational investigation into the human representation and processing of visual information. MIT press. Zwarts & Gärdenfors (2016). Locative and directional prepositions in conceptual spaces: The role of polar convexity. Journal of Logic, Language and Information. First episode of our discussion of Conceptual Spaces as part of this podcast's book club series: https://geni.us/bjks-concept-space-1

Isabel Thielmann is a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for the study of crime, security and law. In this conversation, we talk about her background as a competitive sprinter, her research on prosocial behaviour and personality, the role of affordances, how game theory and interdependence theory can helpus understand human social behaviour, and Isa's experiences in having started a lab.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith.Support the show: https://geni.us/bjks-patreonTimestamps0:00:04: Isa used to be a pretty good sprinter0:11:03: Lessons from athletics0:16:40: How Isa got into psychology and doing science0:26:47: Breadth vs depth in research topics0:33:32: Start discussing Isa's review article 'Economics Games: an introduction and guide for research'0:46:06: What are game theory and interdependence theory?0:59:06: Affordances and economic games1:10:44: Personality and economic games1:34:20: Isa's experiences starting her lab and becoming a PIPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtIsa's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/thielmann-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/thielmann-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/Thielmann-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferencesAmir, Rand & Gal (2012). Economic games on the internet: The effect of $1 stakes. PloS one. Cameron (1999). Raising the stakes in the ultimatum game: Experimental evidence from Indonesia. Econ Inquiry.Columbus, Münich & Gerpott (2020). Playing a different game: Situation perception mediates framing effects on cooperative behaviour. J Exp Soc Psych.Diehl, Thielmann, Thiel, Mayer, Zipfel & Schneider (2014). Possibilities to support elite adolescent athletes in improving performance: Results from a qualitative content analysis. Science & sports.Galizzi & Navarro-Martinez (2019). On the external validity of social preference games: a systematic lab-field study. Management Science.Halevy, Chou & Murnighan (2012). Mind games: the mental representation of conflict. J perso and soc psych.Kuper-Smith, Voulgaris, Briken, Fuss & Korn (2022). Social preferences and psychopathy in a sample of male prisoners. PsyArXiv.Liebrand (1984). The effect of social motives, communication and group size on behaviour in an N‐person multi‐stage mixed‐motive game. Eur J soc psych.Peysakhovich, Nowak & Rand (2014). Humans display a ‘cooperative phenotype’that is domain general and temporally stable. Nat Comm.Thielmann, Böhm, Ott & Hilbig (2021). Economic games: An introduction and guide for research. Collabra: Psych.Thielmann & Hilbig (2015). Trust: An integrative review from a person–situation perspective. Review of Gen Psych. Thielmann, Spadaro & Balliet (2020). Personality and prosocial behavior: A theoretical framework and meta-analysis. Psych Bull.Adam Mastroianni's article on conversational doorknobs: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobs

Daniela Schiller is a Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where she studies the neural mechanisms of emotional control and flexibility. In this conversation, we talk about her work on cognitive maps for social behaviour, the importance of power and affiliation for our social lives, the difficulties of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI, and potential psychiatric applications of cognitive maps.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:04: Daniela's drumming03:31: How Daniela started working on (social) cognitive maps08:42: The 2 perspectives on the hippocampus: spatial navigation and episodic memory for relational learning and cognitive maps15:22: Power and affiliation as fundamental social dimensions19:24: Start discussing Daniela's paper 'A map for social navigation in the human brain'28:45: The difficulty of measuring spatial navigation with fMRI42:51: Clinical applications of cognitive mapsPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtDaniela's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/schiller-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/schiller-scholarBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksThe Amygdaloids: https://www.youtube.com/@theamygdaloidsBellmund, De Cothi, Ruiter, Nau, Barry & Doeller (2020). Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory. Nature Human Behaviour.Constantinescu, O’Reilly & Behrens (2016). Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code. Science.Doeller, Barry & Burgess (2010). Evidence for grid cells in a human memory network. Nature.Jacobs, ... & Kahana (2013). Direct recordings of grid-like neuronal activity in human spatial navigation. Nature Neuroscience.Montagrin, Saiote & Schiller (2018). The social hippocampus. Hippocampus.Schafer & Schiller (2018). Navigating social space. Neuron.Schafer, Kamilar-Britt, Sahani, Bachi & Schiller (2022). Hippocampal Place-like Signal in Latent Space. bioRxiv. Schiller, Eichenbaum, Buffalo, Davachi, Foster, Leutgeb & Ranganath (2015). Memory and space: towards an understanding of the cognitive map. Journal of Neuroscience. Tavares, Mendelsohn, Grossman, Williams, Shapiro, Trope & Schiller (2015). A map for social navigation in the human brain. Neuron.Tolman (1948). Cognitive maps in rats and men. Psychological Review.Yartsev, Witter & Ulanovsky (2011). Grid cells without theta oscillations in the entorhinal cortex of bats. Nature.

Rafael Pérez y Pérez is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Cuajimalpa, where he studies computational creativity, in particular in relation to computer programs that can write stories. In this conversation, we talk about MEXICA, the story generator he has been working on for most of his career, his newly released book Story Machines (with Mike Sharples), the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to creating stories with AI, what the future holds, whether large companies like Amazon are working on these topics, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/bjks_podcastTimestamps00:05: How Rafael ended up doing his PhD on artificial creativity in Sussex07:00: Why did Rafael create MEXICA? / A more human system for generating stories24:45: Many approaches of generating stories30:46: Is a combination of symbolic and connectionist approaches  (neuro-symbolic AI)  the solution to creating machines that write stories?33:23: Why might GPT-3 not work for stories or The risk of singing a Mexican sereneade to a Norwegian43:38: Are there fundamental barries for AI writing convincing fiction without actually living in the real world?47:54: Is Amazon developing AI to write fiction?53:59: What will happen in the next 5-10 years of AI writing stories?Podcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtRafael's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/perez-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/perez-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/perez-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtReferences and linksChat GPT: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/ Mnih, Kavukcuoglu, Silver, ... & Hassabis (2015). Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning. Nature. Mueller (1990). Daydreaming in humans and machines: a computer model of the stream of thought. Intellect Books. Pérez y Pérez & Sharples (2004). Three computer-based models of storytelling: BRUTUS, MINSTREL and MEXICA. Knowledge-based systems.Propp (1968). Morphology of the Folktale. University of Texas Press.Sharples &  Pérez y Pérez (2022). Story Machines: How Computers Have Become Creative Writers. Routledge. Sharples &  Pérez y Pérez (2023). Introduction to narrative generators. Oxford University PressTurner (1993). MINSTREL: A computer model of creativity and storytelling, PhD Dissertation, University of California LA. 

Adam Mastroianni is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School. In this conversation, we talk about his work on conversations, his Substack/blog, his article Things Could Be Better and why he chose to publish it this way, improv comedy, and much more.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes will appear irregularly, roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:01:20: Did Adam fake having a girlfriend when he appeared on Come Dine With Me?0:08:51: Adam's Substack called 'Experimental History'0:10:51: Good conversations have lots of doorknobs0:15:33: What can people learn from improv comedy?0:23:10: Why did Adam start his Substack? / A discussion of academia, alternative ways of doing science, and the problems with academic publishing1:12:26: Start discussing Adam's paper 'Do conversations end when people want them to?'1:27:28: What makes for a good conversation?1:29:59: Some words of advice from AdamPodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtAdam's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/mastroianni-webSubstack: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/Google Scholar: https://geni.us/mastroianni-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/mastroianni-twtBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtLinksRowan Atkinson saying words in a funny way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UhHrtKx8-sSubstack article on conversational doorknobs: https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/good-conversations-have-lots-of-doorknobshttps://slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/02/10/the-scientific-virtues/Episode with Joe Hilgard about scientific fraud: https://geni.us/bjks-hilgardGet me off your mailing list: https://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scamDan Quintana's YouTube with Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@dsquintanaAdam's Rhodes speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H68w3543lkhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlineshttps://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/09/style/no-37-big-wedding-or-small.htmlReferencesGilbert (2009). Stumbling on happiness.Mastroianni, Gilbert, Cooney, & Wilson (2021). Do conversations end when people want them to? PNAS.Mastroianni, AM & Ludwin-Peery, EJ. (2022). Things could be better. https://psyarxiv.com/2uxwkSchwartz (2008). The importance of stupidity in scientific research. Journal of Cell Science.

Gareth Barnes is a professor at University College London, where he is Head of  Magnetoencephalography. We talk about how Gareth randomly stumbled into working on MEG, what MEG is, and some of his recent projects, including the exciting new generation of MEG scanners: OPM-MEG.BJKS Podcast is a podcast about neuroscience, psychology, and anything vaguely related, hosted by Benjamin James Kuper-Smith. In 2022, episodes appear roughly twice per month. You can find the podcast on all podcasting platforms (e.g., Spotify, Apple/Google Podcasts, etc.). Timestamps0:00:03: How I found out about Gareth's work0:02:31: What is MEG?0:07:04: Flexible headcasts for MEG0:19:49: How Gareth accidentally  started working on MEG (after writing fiction in France)0:28:46: The early days of MEG at Aston University (starting with a  single channel)0:40:58: The new generation of MEG:  Optically pumped magnetometers (OPM-MEG)1:13:33: Mouth MEG and measuring hippocampus with MEG1:21:06: The relationship between methods development and discovery in basic sciencePodcast linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-podTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-pod-twtGareth's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/barnes-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/barnes-scholarBen's linksWebsite: https://geni.us/bjks-webGoogle Scholar: https://geni.us/bjks-scholarTwitter: https://geni.us/bjks-twtLinksMEG in the UK: https://meguk.ac.uk/MEG image: https://biomaglaboratory.fi/wp-content/themes/biomagille/images/meg_image_20210422b.jpgCerca MEG: https://www.cercamagnetics.com/Fieldline MEG: https://fieldlineinc.com/Young Epilepsy: https://www.youngepilepsy.org.uk/Sphenoidal electrodes: https://www.epilepsybehavior.com/article/S1525-5050(03)00023-4/fulltextReferencesBoto, ... & Brookes (2018). Moving magnetoencephalography towards real-world applications with a wearable system. Nature.Boto, ... & Brookes (2019). Wearable neuroimaging: Combining and contrasting magnetoencephalography and electroencephalography. NeuroImage.Hill, ... & Brookes (2019). A tool for functional brain imaging with lifespan compliance. Nature Communications.Meyer, ... & Barnes (2017). Flexible head-casts for high spatial precision MEG. Journal of neuroscience methods.Sander, ... & Knappe (2012). Magnetoencephalography with a chip-scale atomic magnetometer. Biomedical optics express.Seymour, ... & Maguire (2021). Using OPMs to measure neural activity in standing, mobile participants. NeuroImage.Stangl, ... & Suthana (2021). Boundary-anchored neural mechanisms of location-encoding for self and others. Nature.Tierney, ... & Barnes (2019). Optically pumped magnetometers: From quantum origins to multi-channel magnetoencephalography. NeuroImage.Tierney, ... & Barnes (2021). Mouth magnetoencephalography: A unique perspective on the human hippocampus. NeuroImage.Vivekananda, ... & Walker (2020). Optically pumped magnetoencephalography in epilepsy. Annals of clinical and translational neurology.